Elyzza and Michael and the 2D Pinata.

This wedding was magic. An incredible vendor team, a wonderful couple, and oh yeah, I got to make a nine foot tall two dimensional pinata.

Elyzza and Michael got married at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. The space is super modern but quirky at the same time (think two or three story concrete walls painted an almost obscene shade of fuchsia).

When I met Elyzza for the first time, Christina from Simply Modern Weddings had already put together a gorgeous inspiration board for her Latin fusion wedding. I would love to take more design credit, but honestly, those two had done all of the heavy design lifting for me. Beautiful handmade Mexican pottery for the florals and an incredibly fun color palette? That was all them. All I had to do was provide kickass flower arrangements. Oh, and the 2D pinata. More on that later.

First? The beautiful pictures from Ashley Rose.


We used tons of texture and color in the florals.

The boutonnieres and the bridesmaids' bouquets were wrapped in braided fabric.  Makeup by Erica at 1011 makeup.

Elyzza's bouquet was wrapped in Mexican embroidered fabric. I cut up a small blouse that I picked up in Olvera Street for it.


Me? Not so much a shoe person. Not normally. But HOT DAMN those are some good looking shoes.



Each bridesmaid bouquet had a dominant color (either pink, purple, or orange) so that they were cohesive but subtly different from each other.





These getting ready pics are at the gorgeous Hotel Maya in Long Beach.

Okay. It's pinata time. So the wedding ceremonies at the Museum take place on a big concrete stage. With a giant rolling delivery door on it. We wanted something high impact to make the stage look as wonderful and colorful as the rest of the wedding. Enter my idea to create a 9 foot tall by 8 foot wide fringed tissue paper backdrop. The 2D pinata. And Elyzza, bless her soul, said yes.



We also made matching tissue pom poms (inspired by confetti system) to hang from the chairs.



Things to know if you make one of these: It is going to take you a long, long, long time. It is going to resemble the coat of a Snuffleupagus on acid when it is lying on the floor of your living room. Make sure your ceilings are tall enough before making it (it was going to be 10', alas I have 9' ceilings).

The backdrop was moved behind the dessert table after the ceremony. Desserts are by Long Beach heroes Sweet and Saucy Shop.


The super cute escort cards (and other paper goods) were made by Paper and Thread. Christina created this backdrop for them by painting a table runner from CB2 and nailing it to a huge sheet of plywood we brought.


Half of the tables had wooden boxes with colored glass bottles, and half had florals in beautiful decortive pottery.

I love the tile table numbers!



Thanks Elyzza and Michael for being so fun to work with! (P.S. Elyzza had already bought a Ghost Academy card to give to Michael on their wedding day without knowing the connection. It made me super happy!)

Thanks to 100 layer cake for featuring this wedding!

And thank you to all of the kickass vendors!

Design/Coordination: Simply Modern Weddings
Florals: Us!
Paper: Paper & Thread
Hair/Makeup: 1011 MakeUp
Sweets: Sweet & Saucy Shop
Photography: Ashley Rose

Happy anniversary, Monica and Josh!

Monica and Josh will always be special to me.  Besides being awesome, funny, and cool, they have that wonderful kind of  chemistry where you can tell how crazy they are for each other just by the way they look at each other.  (Their chemistry is so great that I actually asked them to model in this photoshoot).  On top of all that, their wedding was the first wedding that I ever booked as Honey and Poppies.  When I booked Monica and Josh's wedding in October of 2009, the website had been live for a couple of weeks.  They were married one year ago today.

Here is a video of their wedding (stolen off of facebook this morning :)  I think Josh put it together)


And some flower shots...

Monica's bouquet, with tree peonies, Judy roses, antique hydrangea, dahlias, succulents, and accents...  
I picked up the cameo brooch for the stem wrap at a vintage flea market.

Cheery and simple daisy bridesmaid bouquets (Daisies are a favorite of Monica's)


Ceremony set up.  We lined the aisle with maple and oak leaves.  The Muckenthaler (where the wedding was held) has a giant gazebo structure that's a bit too modern for the vintage vibe Monica and Josh wanted.  I had just done this wedding a few months before where I hung windows from it to give it a bit more character.  We recreated that look but changed it up quite a bit and also hung tons of jars with floating candles from the structure.  The top had hydrangea, roses, and tons of berries, leaves, and autumn accents.



I strongly dislike tall centerpieces.  M&J do too.  But Mon's mom wanted them.  So to create something that we all loved, we acquired some stair spindles salvaged from a Victorian era house and built them into tall containers to hold half of the centerpieces.  I love the way they turned out.  We surrounded them with candles, and we also made table numbers using Mon and Josh's silhouette.

 


Happy Anniversary you two!  xoxo